Politics of Sociability: Freemasonry and German Civil Society, 1840-1918. Transl. by Tom Lampert. Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007).

Die Politik der Geselligkeit: Freimaurerlogen in der deutschen Bürgergesellschaft, 1840-1918.Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000). Winner of the 2002 Hedwig Hintze Prize of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands, awarded every two years for the best first book in all historical fields.

"Nationalism and the Quest for Moral Universalism: German Freemasonry, 1860-1914," In The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to World War I, ed. Martin H. Geyer and Johannes Paulmann (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001), 254-279.

"Brothers or Strangers? Jews and Freemasons in Nineteenth-Century Germany," German History 18 (2000), 143-161.